Oh
Oh dear
We're fucked, aren't we?
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This has been a known outcome for at least 30 years.
Yes. We are. We have been for a long time.
It's just becoming more visible to the first world.
Hopefully people remember and learn from the Australian government who allowed water to be traded like stocks. The idea was that farmers and companies that needed water most would pay for water rights from people who didn't need it.
In practice it lead to mega rich foreigners buying up all the water rights in Australia and preventing anyone from using them which created artificial scarcity and drove up prices. These mega rich foreigners then sold Australians their own water back to them at exorbitant prices.
They know very well what they're doing.
The water wars started years ago and if you're not Nestle you're already losing.
Nestle would poison every source of water in the world if it meant swelling a few more bottles of water.
We’ll reorient the maps so that the north is west.
Says the paper that denied genocide in the 1930s.
I'm fairly certain they're denying genocide in the 2020s
I think I could get used to the taste of human flesh. I hear the 1% are especially tender
As we round the decade and head straight into the world of Tank Girl.
I actually hope the NYT gets dismantled in the press purges. They've been so evil that I personally hate them more than far right propaganda outlets.
there's a razor thin line between the top-hat old-school capitalist stereotype and anti-semitic imagery
Time to learn moisture farming
this is already happening in places like Chili where big avocado farmers are hoarding water while locals suffer from water shortage and we eat our avocados....